So... What's your top fav. car movies?

Ronin
The Bourne Identity series
The Italian Job
The Blues Brothers
the original Gone in 60 Seconds (the remake is perfectly fine also)
Goldfinger
Die Another Day (and other select Bond chase/stunt scenes)

Rendezvous is it's own brand of cult classic, but that would qualify as a short vs. whole movie.

Grand Prix is essential; get the two-disc DVD and watch all the special features first, then the movie. Pay no attention to Eva Marie Saint. Learn to affect a French accent when you say, "When Ah see somzing 'orreebool, Ah poot mah foot down, hard---because I know zee othairs are leefting zairs!"

Frankenheimer said he made Ronin to go back and remind people how a car chase should be done.

American Graffiti is great fun, especially when the farm boy (some guy named Ford) rolls the bitchin' '55 Chevy; the one you see upside down is an obvious junkyard dog with skinny steel wheels.

The Last Run is essential BMW-junkie kindergarten. Use it when somebody asks you what you mean by "existential film."

Gone In Sixty Seconds is the second most insulting movie ever made, as good a reason as any to boycott Nicolas Cage movies. In one scene the mirror of the Mustang is snapped off, bouncing against the door and hanging by its wires; in the next scene, it's miraculously restored. I can suspend disbelief long enough to put up with what one critic calls "the inevitable flame-and-steam factory," but self-healing mirrors show a disdain for the audience.

Satch Carlson

"The first failure of communication is the belief that any is taking place."

Gone In Sixty Seconds is the second most insulting movie ever made, as good a reason as any to boycott Nicolas Cage movies. In one scene the mirror of the Mustang is snapped off, bouncing against the door and hanging by its wires; in the next scene, it's miraculously restored. I can suspend disbelief long enough to put up with what one critic calls "the inevitable flame-and-steam factory," but self-healing mirrors show a disdain for the audience.

That's what's so wonderful about the original Gone in Sixty Seconds. The Mustang used in that movie was the same car from beginning to end (no stand-ins) and as it got damaged in a scene, it stayed that way (and continued to get pounded on throughout the movie).

Outside of that movie, I've gotten as used to self healing cars in chase scenes as I have of tires squealing on dirt. That's one that irks me.

I have to say that the film that Audi did about last year's Le Mans (actually done by NFL Films) is up there in my top 5. Very well told and narrated by Jason Stratham (the Transporter guy). It is a really winner. Shown on ESPN HD only once...But...

...it is free on iTunes for download and watching. Search for "Truth In 24" under the Movies heading.